On 7/25/05, Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Dan Track wrote: > > I just created a partition using fdisk. I labelled the partition "82" > > i.e swap. Now when I do "swapon /dev/hda9" I get "swapon: /dev/hda9: > > Invalid argument". > > > > Can anyone help me fix this? > > Did you format the swap partition? > > See "man mkswap" > > Paul. > Great that was it. Thank Dan